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• Islamic State is prime suspect in Turkey bombing, as protests erupt

  Turkey's government said on Monday Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara, but opponents vented anger at President Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, universities and courthouses.

• Bomb attack deepens divisions as Turkey faces bitter election

  Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet after Turkey's worst ever bomb attack.

• U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills 9

  Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least nine people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State, Kurdish and far-left militants.

• Turkey's main opposition accuses Erdogan of blocking coalition efforts

  Turkey's main opposition leader has accused President Tayyip Erdogan of blocking efforts to form a coalition government and warned him against taking the country to new elections through "blood politics" by reopening conflict with Kurdish militants.

• Turkey launches heaviest air strikes yet on PKK, stoking Kurdish ire

  Turkish jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible.

• NATO backs Turkey's fight against Islamic State

  NATO offered political support for Turkey's campaign against militants in Syria and Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday, and President Tayyip Erdogan signaled the alliance may have a "duty" to become more involved.

• Kurdish party thwarts Erdogan's ambitions with Turkish election advance

  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a major setback on Sunday when the ruling AK Party he founded failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election for the first time.

• Filmmakers pull out of Istanbul festival over censorship row

  Nearly two dozen filmmakers and a group of international critics have pulled out of the Istanbul Film Festival after the government prevented the screening of a film about Kurdish militants, in the latest outcry over censorship in Turkey.

• Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State

  Saint Michael, the archangel of battle, is tattooed across the back of a U.S. army veteran who recently returned to Iraq and joined a Christian militia fighting Islamic State in what he sees as a biblical war between good and evil.

• Kurdish deal with Turkey within reach but legal guarantees key: Ocalan

  A settlement to end a three-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants in Turkey could be reached within months if the government puts in place legal guarantees for Kurdish rights, a jailed militant leader was quoted as saying on Sunday.

• Kurds' battle for Kobani unites a people divided by borders

  Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was -- until recently -- an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war against the militants of Islamic State.

• About 60,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey from Islamic State advance

  About 60,000 Syrian Kurds fled into Turkey in the space of 24 hours, a deputy prime minister said on Saturday, as Islamic State militants seized dozens of villages close to the border.

• UK judge dismisses Turkey extradition request of a Briton on terrorism claims

  A Westminster magistrates court has moved to dismiss the request of the government of Turkey to extradite Deniz Akgul, who has been convicted twice over terrorism charges, the Guardian said.